Rendell Ashton, MD
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Treatment & Services
- Bronchoscopy
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Thoracentesis
- Treating Asthma with Bronchodilators
Specialty in Diseases & Conditions
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH)
- Lung Cancer
- Pneumonia
- Respiratory Failure
- Sepsis
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Rendell W. Ashton, MD, has been a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician in the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic since July of 2008. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He came to Cleveland after three years in the division of pulmonary and critical care at SUNY Update in Syracuse, NY.
He has directed the pulmonary/critical care medicine fellowship at Cleveland Clinic since 2010 and helped launch the critical care medicine fellowship in 2010, which he directed until July 2013. He was the president of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors in 2017-18. His clinical and scholarly interests include many areas of critical care and pulmonary medicine, but particularly respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation and sepsis. His is also interested in educational scholarship, including medical simulation as a learning tool.
Education & Professional Highlights
Appointed
2008
Education & Fellowships
Fellowship - Mayo Clinic
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Rochester,
MN
2005
Residency - Mayo Clinic
Internal Medicine
Rochester,
MN
2002
Medical Education - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
MD
Baltimore,
MD
1998
Undergraduate - Brigham Young University
Provo,
UT
1994
Certifications
- Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease
- Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
Specialty Interests
Acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), hypersensitivity pneumonitis, langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, sepsis, medical education Acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), goodpasture syndrome, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), lung cancer, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), pulmonary fibrosis, scleroderma, sepsis
Awards & Honors
- Teacher of the Year, Department of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2005-6, 2006-7, and 2007-8
- Teacher of the Year, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 2008-9, 2009-10.
Research & Publications
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